by Rhonda Hanson
If anyone should be able to forgive, it should be a minister. A beautiful actress is standing in need of forgiveness, but she knows that the pastor is the last one willing to offer it to her.
"I"m not okay, God! I'm not okay!"
If anyone should be able to forgive, it should be a minister. Week after week, the young, handsome Pastor Grant Sellars stands in the pulpit preaching the gospel and its message of forgiveness to his congregation, while he nurses a past wound that has never healed. He has been devoted to his anger, stoking its heat and telling himself that he deserves to feel the way he does, and that no one is going to take that away from him. Over the years, he has chosen to cope by filling his time with working out at the gym, running endless miles around the park and hanging out with his buddy, Fred.
Fred is soon to be married, and Pastor Sellars will be forced to officiate at the wedding, even though the very thought of a wedding reminds him that his anger is still there, just waiting to be unleashed. It is a humiliating and painful thing to be left at the altar and to become the object of pity, as everyone sits staring at the groom when the undeniable truth is revealed that no bride is coming down the aisle to meet him. Now, the last thing the minister wants to do is to join two people in matrimony, and his brand of premarital counseling is distorted, at best.
Grant's profession often requires him to serve in this capacity, as well as dedicate babies, visit the sick, and preach funerals. It is while preaching a funeral as a favor for an incapacitated minister that the dam that has been holding back years of bitterness and wrath finally breaks, and leaves the hurting, young pastor leaning against the windows of the local gym, staring out at the parking lot with hot tears running down his face, whispering, "I'm not okay, God. I'm not okay."
A beautiful actress has arrived in this small Mississippi town and stands in need of forgiveness, but she knows that the local pastor is the last one willing to offer it to her.
Author of inspirational romance, including the Father series, consisting of "Father's Choice", "Father's Wings", "Father's Song", and a linked novel, "Father's Friend". Other titles include "The Master of Hawthorn Manor", "Buying the Farm", "Once Upon An Altar", "The Art of Letting Go", "Dancing to an Elegy for Eden", "The Long Goodbye", "Love Finds the Way Home", "Linger" and her children's book, "The Adventures of Pahwoo and Her Friends".
Rhonda Hanson is one of a pair of twins, the youngest of ten siblings, raised on Black Bayou in Louisiana. For much of her childhood, she lived without the luxuries of indoor plumbing and electricity and, growing up without the Internet, devices, or television, she was left to discover the exciting worlds that can only be discovered within the pages of a good book. She is a collector of vintage children's books, and is not embarrassed to admit that she will reread the same book over and over, if it makes her happy. Her own imagination began to be challenged at an early age, and she would pen practically anything and everything that fermented in her mind, much of which is sadly lost or left back in her youth, probably in some old trunk in someone's barn.Today, Rhonda is a novelist, recording artist, songwriter, musician and speaker, but her most crowning achievement is being "Grammy" to her two granddaughters. She spends her days in middle Tennessee, writing, convincing feral cats that the Hanson Hotel is open for business, bragging to anyone who will listen about her grandchildren and tearing all her Macbooks apart and rebuilding them, because of her stubborn refusal to upgrade.
Meredith Clark is as irritating as she is beautiful. She's all Joel wants. A man from her past threatens to destroy her career overnight.
Does Father have wings? The lives of Joel and Meredith continue forward into a season of intercession, and spiritual warfare that can only be survived under the protection of a loving Father.
The 3rd book in the Father series, Father's Song, weaves the final threads into this much loved tapestry. It reaches back across former years and hints at the years to come, with a bittersweet, lovely but final chord.
Father's Friend, not included in the Father Series (comprised of Father's Choice, Father's Wings, and Father's Song), is a linked novel that takes the reader back to the beginning and peels back the layers of who Meredith Clark really is.
by Rhonda Hanson
When Audra Campbell returned to the town she had lived in, after having been gone for several years, the first thing she heard was that Martin Satterfield was recently widowed, following the untimely, and suspicious death of his late wife.
by Rhonda Hanson
Barrett Webb had been told that once he bought the struggling young widow's farm, she would be homeless, but when he met the beautiful Iris Anderson and she looked into his eyes, he was prepared to offer her a solution.
Was Jane Roberts dead? Her brother, a wealthy timber baron, came this small town from halfway across the country to find out. No one was going to stop him. Would Cora Hartmann be determined to challenge him, or would she become his lifeline?
by Rhonda Hanson
The farm of her childhood is gone forever. It is now a place of death and devastation. A man has purchased the farm, in order to free it from its captors. For her, his kindness is a act of respect, a funeral song. An elegy for Eden.
by Rhonda Hanson
THE LONG GOODBYE is dedicated to anyone who has ever become its victim, and who may even now be unable to move ahead without looking back. It is for those who will one day find themselves part of another's journey of transition.
by Rhonda Hanson
An abused woman's escape leads her into her protector's arms. A bereaved woman refuses to ever trust love again. When time and love join forces, a sanctuary begins to appear on the horizon for each woman, and love finds the way home.
by Rhonda Hanson
Hester discovers a fascinating old man at the Bishop farm who has an immediate and emotional reaction to her return, and who shares his wit, his wisdom, and his poetry with her, despite the apparent displeasure of his suspicious, unamused son.
by Rhonda Hanson
Pahwoo is an unusual owl. She is pink! She wants to be an elephant, she wants to paint the Painted Desert, and she wants an elaborate funeral! Blinky the cat, Lily the goat, Dusty the pony keep her grounded. Millie the mouse cheers her on.